Help LCC Provide Financial Assistance to Students at Palm Bay Prep Academy Affected by Hurricane Michael

The Lutheran Early Response Team (LERT) from Trinity Lutheran Church in Lisle, Illinois, is coordinating a gift card program to assist children of the Palm Bay Prep Academy in Panama City, Florida. During Lutheran Church Charities’ recent disaster response deployment, Trinity team leaders Jan Boerman and Skip Sorensen met with Pastor Paul McComack from Trinity Lutheran Church and Palm Bay Prep Academy Principal, Dr. Kathy Fontaine.  They heard about the difficult situations these children and their families are now facing in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. Many are now homeless and living in tents. Everything they own is gone!

Trinity Panama City supports this charter school located across the street from the church with students from 6th to 12th grade with requested services and supplies throughout the school year. Through the generosity of Trinity Lisle, team leaders were able to purchase backpacks and fill them with needed school supplies and personal toiletry items for the school’s 300 students as they returned to school.  

Dr. Fontaine contacted Jan Boerman, Trinity Lisle team leader, last week to ask if any other assistance could possibly be provided to her students. She stated that these children are in desperate need of shoes, socks and underwear. She asked if it would be possible to provide a $50 Walmart gift card for each student to purchase these needed items. Walmart is the only large department store fully stocked, open, and accessible to students families in Panama City at this time.

Lutheran Church Charities is supporting the Trinity Lisle LERT team in the purchasing and delivering of gift cards to Pastor Paul McComack to give to Principal Fontaine for her students by collecting monetary donations for the purchase of the gift cards.

Donate - Trinity Lisle/Palm Bay Prep Academy Gift Card Fund